Fairview, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Floresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78114. The Survey maps it on the Saspamco SE quadrangle.

Fairview within Wilson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Saspamco SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2006 and 2018, burning about 2,253 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 August 2014	Smoking	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRON OAK #2
19 August 2014	Smoking	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRON OAK#1
9 June 2006	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILSON
15 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAIRVIEW RD. AND BRITE RD.
19 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	697 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FAIRVIEW
15 May 2006	Natural	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 May 2006	Natural	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Niel Pits	Clay	Producer	Sedimentary
	W S Dickey Clay Neil Pits	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Wilson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Loire	3.8 miles	9
Canada Verde	6.0 miles	9
Darilek	6.3 miles	10
Graytown	6.6 miles	9
Loma Vista	7.5 miles	10
Calaveras	8.3 miles	9
Saspamco	8.5 miles	9
Floresville	9.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379747. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.